Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev trip. Among those ranged against Khrushchev: United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther; International Union of Electrical Workers' James Carey; Papermakers and Paperworkers' Paul Phillips; Maritime Union's Joseph Curran; Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' Orie Albert ("Jack") Knight; Brewery Workers' Karl Feller. Excerpts...
...horse-drawn carriages. Over the city looms an eleven-story mechanized silo with a bakery attached where Russian experts supervise the mass production of bread and its delivery throughout the city by a fleet of Russian trucks. Some $300 million in Soviet grants and loans provide Afghanistan with oil-storage tanks, power plants, factories and a direct radiotelephone link with Moscow. Today, fully half of Afghanistan's trade is with the Soviet Union...
...state's victims (mostly children under ten and the aged) last week, there was little that doctors could do but keep down body temperatures. Work crews were spraying swamps with oil and DDT. To everyone in the affected areas. Health Commissioner Roscoe Kandle issued a sharp warning: stay clear of swamps and farmyards where mosquitoes or infected animals abound...
...workers idle in August, Mitchell estimated that 500,000 were in the 70 most distressed areas. Seventeen of the areas, including Detroit, Providence and Charleston, W.Va., were officially labeled as "chronic" for the first time. Reasons: depletion of natural resources, the shift from hard coal to natural gas and oil for heating, the transfer of industries to other regions, and growing automation...
...negligible influence on the world's currencies ; the job of reconstruction needed before currency stabilization proved too big. But by 1956, the year Jacobsson took over, the Fund got its first big chance to show what it could do when Egypt seized the Suez Canal, then blocked oil, food and other vital supplies from Europe, and touched off a disastrous run on the British pound...